handicraftsman

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As a student of art, he mourned over the reduction of the handicraftsman to a slave of the machine.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

It was still, happily, the age of the handicraftsman; the machinery age was yet to come.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison

The true welfare of the nation is indissolubly bound up in the welfare of the farmer and wage-worker; of the man who tills the soil, and of the mechanic, the handicraftsman, and the laborer.

From American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Stratemeyer, Edward

In Rome, for a free citizen to have been a handicraftsman would have been a disgrace; he could be farmer, banker, soldier,—nothing more.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

In course of time the handicraftsman followed the peddler, the German shoemaker, the tinsmith, and the saddler established themselves; the tents changed into strongly-built houses that stood around the market-place.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav